Crimson Dynamo

First up is some news on the specials:

Fin Fang Foom is due to go on sale on 25th Feb.

Our special after that will be Cloak and Dagger due sometime in May.

We’re currently looking at who should come after Cloak and Dagger. We want to do a normal priced/sized special so have ruled out a double pack or mega special. At the moment we’re considering doing an Omega Red special.

The reason for this is that he’s always one of (if not) the most popular specials requested. The other option could be to do Odin but with a Thor movie due out next year, it might make sense to wait until then. We’ll definitely not be going for a movie version but at that point I might be able to keep Odin a normal special but convince higher-ups to make him a little more impressive. Don’t worry that doesn’t mean changing the base (we’ll have no repeat of Abomination) it just means we might get his magical spear Gungnir as well as the ravens and make the figure a little bigger.

On to the figurine preview:
As you demanded it (well some of you anyway) here’s the Crimson Dynamo figurine.



We had a number of difficult choices with this figure.

First we needed to decide which armour to go with. As you can see we went for what is technically the Mark III armour but sometimes known as Mark IV. Our reasons for choosing this were that the original armour was a little too bulky to be a normal figure and was only worn for a short period. What is sometimes known as the Mark II armour (and this is what confuses the naming convention) was essentially the same as the first and once again only worn for one issue.

What that really left us with was either the next armour seen in the comics (Mark II) or the one after (Mark III). Most of the costumes after III were very short lived, not very iconic and in some cases not really even crimson.

In the end I decided to go for the Mark III as this armour not only has history, but is also very similar to the armour being used at the moment. I personally think the armour looks modern enough to be standing around our Iron Man and War Machine figures but also retains a classic Soviet Crimson Dynamo look.

The actual pose for the figurine was chosen to emphasise the qualities of the character. We wanted to have him standing in a very hostile/protective pose. The outstretched arm isn’t firing a repulsor beam but is there to say ‘come no further’. I really wanted to get the whole People’s Protectorate feel to the character and have him looking a little anti-West/American. Basically he’s warning (Iron Man) to stay away and backing this up with a clenched fist behind his body.

I hope this makes sense. The character’s motivations have always been a little inconsistent. Most of the time he’s anti-American and frequently in the employment of the Russian government. But sometimes the man under the armour has been anti-communism, fought against Russia or just fought Iron Man for the sake of it. We wanted to keep with the Russian hero/anti-Iron Man feel of the character. Hopefully we’ve succeeded.

That’s your lot for this week, enjoy!